Traditional chiropractors or traditional chiropractic physicians practice a hands on approach to your health care. Chiropractors manually adjust the vertebral column. This is to help clear communication pathways in the nervous system. The nervous system, as stated on www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nervous_system, "coordinates the activity of the muscles, monitors the organs, constructs and also stops input from the senses, and initiates actions." Needless to say, the well-being of the nervous system highly impacts the quality of our daily lives.

The chiropractic approach does not include drugs. The chiropractic approach includes a patient examination, diagnosis and treatment. Treatment involves chiropractic adjustments to remove subluxations. Subluxations as defined by www.princetonreview.com/medical, "are disruptions or distortions of nervous system energy flow that may be caused by slight vertebral misalignments." In addition to treatment, chiropractic doctors are often able to recommend therapeutic and rehabilitative activities.